USATODAY.com--Oprah Winfrey has revealed the real reason why she’s ending her daytime talk show after 25 years on the air. In an editorial published in her ‘O’ magazine this month, Oprah revealed that a dying 12-year-old boy told her to end her show ...
Posted Wednesday, May 18th 2011 at 12:22PM
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Four white Philadelphia teachers charge in federal race-bias lawsuits that a black principal suggested they were unfit to teach black students.
The teachers work at a predominantly black school in the city's East Falls neighborhood. Their lawsuits ...
Posted Wednesday, May 18th 2011 at 12:17PM
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HEALTH.com--One hundred obese mums-to-be will be given Metformin as part of a three-year study to tackle obesity rates and reduce the number of difficult births.
Patients at Liverpool Women's Hospital will be given the drug to reduce the food supp ...
Posted Tuesday, May 17th 2011 at 1:30PM
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The following is a video shot at a Tucson, Arizona school board meeting. The lady within the video is reading excerpts from a book in the Ethnic Studies curriculum. Yes, the following is actually being taught to children.
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Posted Tuesday, May 17th 2011 at 12:58PM
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Michael Jackson often sang about saving the world and, indirectly, he may help achieve that goal.
Reginald Garcia, who photographed the young Jackson 33 years ago, believes he has the answer to the world's energy problem. According to a CNN art ...
Posted Monday, May 16th 2011 at 1:49PM
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ATLANTA -- First lady Michelle Obama reminded graduating seniors at Spelman College in Atlanta Saturday of their obligation to pay forward the inheritance they received.
In a commencement speech interwoven with key threads of history of the tradit ...
Posted Sunday, May 15th 2011 at 10:34PM
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This funeral announcement was published in the December 26 2001 edition of Al Wafd, an Egyptian Newspaper, and has been translated from Arabic.
Al-Wafd, Wednesday, December 26, 2001 Vol 15 No 4633
A prominent official in the Afghan Taleban mov ...
Posted Sunday, May 15th 2011 at 10:25PM
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Newsweek.com--A year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster spewed oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the Florida beaches are relatively clean, the surf seems clear and the tourists are returning. But there are signs that the disaster is continuing to affect ...
Posted Sunday, May 15th 2011 at 10:21PM
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Shirley Sherrod, the U.S. Department of Agriculture employee who was forced out after a portion of a videotape was misleadingly used to show her making a racially insensitive remark, will start working for the USDA again, the department told POLITICO ...
Posted Saturday, May 14th 2011 at 3:31PM
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The following text is excerpted from a speech delivered by Minister Louis Farrakhan during October 16, 2001 observance of the Holy Day of Atonement celebrating the 6th anniversary of the Million Man March. The event was held at Christ Universal Templ ...
Posted Saturday, May 14th 2011 at 3:27PM
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After disappointing ratings in its first four months of existence, Oprah Winfrey dismissed OWN network CEO Christina Norman and replaced her with Peter Liguori, chief operating officer for Discovery Communications. Liguori will lead OWN until the end ...
Posted Wednesday, May 11th 2011 at 12:12PM
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WASHINGTON – Former President Jimmy Carter has become the target of a class action lawsuit over ostensibly mean things he said about Israel in his best-selling 2006 book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.
The lawsuit, filed in New York by an Israel ...
Posted Wednesday, May 11th 2011 at 12:09PM
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The 2011-2012 incoming class at the number one ranking undergraduate college school just got a little more diversified. The driving force behind the dynamics? Fifteen-year-old Saheela Ibraheem.
As the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, Ibraheem will ...
Posted Tuesday, May 10th 2011 at 1:19PM
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A zero tolerance policy may produce results but are they the right results?
10th grade New York city student named "Messiah" experienced first-hand how unforgiving and unfair that kind of policy can be when he was suspended, handcuffed and arreste ...
Posted Tuesday, May 10th 2011 at 1:12PM
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The following is a four part speech by Minister Donna Farrakhan, one of the daughters of The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, delivered on April 19, 2011.
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Posted Sunday, May 8th 2011 at 2:56PM
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The following text is derived from one of several Mother's Day speeches delivered by The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
"Heaven Lies at the Foot of Mother." This quotation was spoken by Prophet Muham ...
Posted Sunday, May 8th 2011 at 2:44PM
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CNN.com--A boat carrying 300 African immigrants sank in the Mediterranean Sea near Libya’s coastline, leaving at least sixteen Somali asylum-seekers including children and pregnant women dead.
In an interview with BBC Somali Service, Abdul-ghani M ...
Posted Sunday, May 8th 2011 at 2:19PM
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A TRUE FRIEND
By Sister Siebra Muhammad
Nothing so beautiful and caring as she
The one who brought me to this World
and in the light of day or night
Her smile shines on my heart
So sweet with so much love
Nothing as radiant as she
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Posted Saturday, May 7th 2011 at 5:41PM
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NEW ORLEANS — Ex-New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is releasing a memoir in June about his experiences dealing with Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and its aftermath.
He sent an e-mail and Twitter notes Tuesday about the book, “Katrina’s Secrets: Storms after ...
Posted Saturday, May 7th 2011 at 5:11PM
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